Can anyone answer this?
Would an out-of-catchment applicant for a Bucks school who put it as their first choice have priority over an in-catchment applicant who put the same school as their second choice but did not get their first-choice school for some reason? (Assuming both have a VRT score of 121+) What I'm trying to say is - does the system allocate all places according to first choices before moving on to second and subsequent choices, or does it concentrate initially on catchment area? (iyswim!)

The answer is no. In-catchment would have priority over out-of-catchment even if the school was last on the list of the in-catchment pupil and first on the list of the out-of-catchment.

Bucks operate a system of equal preference. Each school considers ALL applicants equally without knowing where the school is placed on the preference list. They then inform the CC of those they can offer a place and the CC will allocacte you the one highest up your list. I believe there is then a second round before the March 1 offers when schools will offer to the CC places freed up by those allocated choices higher up their list.

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